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==Description== | ==Description== | ||
| − | A medium sized solitary palm, occasionally in clusters of 2-3. TRUNK 6-10 m., about 14 cm. in diam.; internodes 3-5 cm. long, grey, green more distally; nodal scars 1.6 cm. high, whitish; wood very hard, red; crownshaft waxy green. LEAVES tristichous, 7-11 per crown, porrect, slightly arch ing distally; sheath about 80 cm., 12 cm. in diam., closed, waxy pale green, smooth, with brown-tattering shoul ders; petiole absent or up to 13 cm. long, 2-2.5 x 2-2.5 cm. in diam., channelled with sharp edges, green, glabrous; rachis 2.3-2.4 m. long, proximally deeply channelled and 4 x 3 cm., more distally keeled, green, in mid-leaf 1.5-2.3 cm. wide, proximally with thin grey wax or scales, distally glabrous; leaflets 59-61 on each side of the rachis, regular, stiff, pale waxy green abaxially, the proximal 116-134 (-188) x 2.2-3.5 cm. (16 cm. apart, the most proximal often pendulous), median 90-104 x 3-3.7 cm. (interval 2.5-4 cm.), distal 15-40 x 1-2.2 cm/, main veins 1, only the midrib prominent on both surfaces with large distant brown ramenta, the other veins faint and with densely set small red-brown glands, apices attenuate, unequally bifid. INFLORESCENCE solitary, interfoliar at anthesis, erect within sheath, 175-225 cm., branched to 3 orders; peduncle 89 -138 cm., proximally 6-10 x 2-2.5 cm. and convex abaxially, concave adaxially, distally about 7.5 x 4 cm. in diam., glabrous; prophyll 100-130 cm., borne at 30-56 cm. above the base of the peduncle, about 9 cm. wide, glabrous; peduncular bract 68-73 cm., closed in the distal 6 cm., beaked for about 2 cm., inserted at 61-97 cm., abaxially pale waxy green, adaxially chestnut-brown; rachis 70-87 cm., green, glabrous, with 17 branched and 11-20 unbranched first order branches; rachillae 16-27 cm., green, glabrous, about 5 mm. in diam.; triads distant, superficial, with low, rounded bract. STAMINATE FLOWERS slightly scented; sepals 1.8-2.5 x 2.2-2.9 mm., keeled, gibbous, broadly ovate, concave, the broad margins membranous; petals yellow, connate for 1-1.6 mm. to the receptacle, free lobes 2.9-3.5 x 3-3.2 mm., ovate, acute, with adaxially and proximally with 2 swellings on each side of the base of the antepetalous stamen; stamens 6, uniseriate, filaments 3.8-4.4 mm/. long, connate at the very base for c. 0.3 mm., anthers 2.4-2.5 x 1 mm.; pistillode columnar, 1.8-2.3 x 1.4-1.6 mm. PISTILLATE FLOWERS only known in bud, with sepals 2.6- 2.8 x 3.3-3.4 mm., ciliolate; petals about 2.2 x 2.5 mm.; staminodes 6, 0.4-0.6 mm.; ovary asymmetrical, about 2.3 x 2.3 mm. FRUIT not known, but for seed and endocarp found under Beentje & Andriampaniry 4609; endocarp fibrous. SEED ellipsoid, 11.5-13 x 7 mm., rounded at one end, pointed at the other; endosperm deeply ruminate. (J. Dransfield and H. Beentje. 1995)/Palmweb. | + | A medium sized solitary palm, occasionally in clusters of 2-3. TRUNK 6-10 m., about 14 cm. in diam.; internodes 3-5 cm. long, grey, green more distally; nodal scars 1.6 cm. high, whitish; wood very hard, red; crownshaft waxy green. LEAVES tristichous, 7-11 per crown, porrect, slightly arch ing distally; sheath about 80 cm., 12 cm. in diam., closed, waxy pale green, smooth, with brown-tattering shoul ders; petiole absent or up to 13 cm. long, 2-2.5 x 2-2.5 cm. in diam., channelled with sharp edges, green, glabrous; rachis 2.3-2.4 m. long, proximally deeply channelled and 4 x 3 cm., more distally keeled, green, in mid-leaf 1.5-2.3 cm. wide, proximally with thin grey wax or scales, distally glabrous; leaflets 59-61 on each side of the rachis, regular, stiff, pale waxy green abaxially, the proximal 116-134 (-188) x 2.2-3.5 cm. (16 cm. apart, the most proximal often pendulous), median 90-104 x 3-3.7 cm. (interval 2.5-4 cm.), distal 15-40 x 1-2.2 cm/, main veins 1, only the midrib prominent on both surfaces with large distant brown ramenta, the other veins faint and with densely set small red-brown glands, apices attenuate, unequally bifid. INFLORESCENCE solitary, interfoliar at anthesis, erect within sheath, 175-225 cm., branched to 3 orders; peduncle 89 -138 cm., proximally 6-10 x 2-2.5 cm. and convex abaxially, concave adaxially, distally about 7.5 x 4 cm. in diam., glabrous; prophyll 100-130 cm., borne at 30-56 cm. above the base of the peduncle, about 9 cm. wide, glabrous; peduncular bract 68-73 cm., closed in the distal 6 cm., beaked for about 2 cm., inserted at 61-97 cm., abaxially pale waxy green, adaxially chestnut-brown; rachis 70-87 cm., green, glabrous, with 17 branched and 11-20 unbranched first order branches; rachillae 16-27 cm., green, glabrous, about 5 mm. in diam.; triads distant, superficial, with low, rounded bract. STAMINATE FLOWERS slightly scented; sepals 1.8-2.5 x 2.2-2.9 mm., keeled, gibbous, broadly ovate, concave, the broad margins membranous; petals yellow, connate for 1-1.6 mm. to the receptacle, free lobes 2.9-3.5 x 3-3.2 mm., ovate, acute, with adaxially and proximally with 2 swellings on each side of the base of the antepetalous stamen; stamens 6, uniseriate, filaments 3.8-4.4 mm/. long, connate at the very base for c. 0.3 mm., anthers 2.4-2.5 x 1 mm.; pistillode columnar, 1.8-2.3 x 1.4-1.6 mm. PISTILLATE FLOWERS only known in bud, with sepals 2.6- 2.8 x 3.3-3.4 mm., ciliolate; petals about 2.2 x 2.5 mm.; staminodes 6, 0.4-0.6 mm.; ovary asymmetrical, about 2.3 x 2.3 mm. FRUIT not known, but for seed and endocarp found under Beentje & Andriampaniry 4609; endocarp fibrous. SEED ellipsoid, 11.5-13 x 7 mm., rounded at one end, pointed at the other; endosperm deeply ruminate. (J. Dransfield and H. Beentje. 1995)/Palmweb.. |
In its group of large tristichous palms with regular leaflets and ruminate endosperm, closest to D. ampasindavae but distinct in the closed leaf sheath, and the interfoliar inflorescence, resulting in long peduncles and very long bracts. (J. Dransfield and H. Beentje. 1995)/Palmweb. | In its group of large tristichous palms with regular leaflets and ruminate endosperm, closest to D. ampasindavae but distinct in the closed leaf sheath, and the interfoliar inflorescence, resulting in long peduncles and very long bracts. (J. Dransfield and H. Beentje. 1995)/Palmweb. | ||
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Conservation: Critical. Only known from a single forest, with numbers less than fifty; this is right in the middle of the area where mining operations for mineral sand (ilmenite ore) are proposed. (J. Dransfield and H. Beentje. 1995)/Palmweb. | Conservation: Critical. Only known from a single forest, with numbers less than fifty; this is right in the middle of the area where mining operations for mineral sand (ilmenite ore) are proposed. (J. Dransfield and H. Beentje. 1995)/Palmweb. | ||
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| − | image:F120614d1bgljeffm.jpg|Floribunda, Hawaii, Jeff Marcus for scale, photo by BGL | + | image:F120614d1bgljeffm.jpg|Floribunda, Hawaii, Jeff Marcus for scale, photo by BGL. |
| − | image:F120614d2bgl.jpg|Floribunda, Hawaii, photo by BGL | + | image:F120614d2bgl.jpg|Floribunda, Hawaii, photo by BGL. |
| − | image:F120614d3bgl.jpg|Floribunda, Hawaii, photo by BGL | + | image:F120614d3bgl.jpg|Floribunda, Hawaii, photo by BGL. |
| − | image:Saintluccei.jpg|Pinecrest FL. Photo by Jeff Cramer | + | image:Saintluccei.jpg|Pinecrest FL. Photo by Jeff Cramer. |
| − | image:Stluccei2.jpg|Pinecrest FL. Photo by Jeff Cramer | + | image:Stluccei2.jpg|Pinecrest FL. Photo by Jeff Cramer. |
| − | image:Saint510.jpg|Pinecrest FL. Photo by Jeff Cramer | + | image:Saint510.jpg|Pinecrest FL. Photo by Jeff Cramer. |
| − | image:Saint5111.jpg|Pinecrest FL. Photo by Jeff Cramer | + | image:Saint5111.jpg|Pinecrest FL. Photo by Jeff Cramer. |
image:Dypsis_saintaluce_u5z.jpg | image:Dypsis_saintaluce_u5z.jpg | ||
| − | image:Sainteluceiz.jpg|Ho'omalhia Botanical Garden, Hawaii. Photo by Jeff White | + | image:Sainteluceiz.jpg|Ho'omalhia Botanical Garden, Hawaii. Photo by Jeff White. |
| − | image:P1010402z.jpg|Encinitas, CA. Photo by Nick, (ellidro) | + | image:P1010402z.jpg|Encinitas, CA. Photo by Nick, (ellidro). |
| − | image:P1010043z.jpg|Floribunda, Hawaii. Photo by Steve Piercy | + | image:P1010043z.jpg|Floribunda, Hawaii. Photo by Steve Piercy. |
| − | image:P1010044z.jpg|Floribunda, Hawaii. Photo by Steve Piercy | + | image:P1010044z.jpg|Floribunda, Hawaii. Photo by Steve Piercy. |
| − | image:P1010068z.jpg|Floribunda, Hawaii. Photo by Steve Piercy | + | image:P1010068z.jpg|Floribunda, Hawaii. Photo by Steve Piercy. |
| − | image:Dsaintlucz.jpg|Bill Austin's garden, Hawaii. Photo by Timothy Brian | + | image:Dsaintlucz.jpg|Bill Austin's garden, Hawaii. Photo by Timothy Brian. |
| − | image:Post-4755-062314900_1336077021.jpg|Hawaii. Photo by Bill Auistin | + | image:Post-4755-062314900_1336077021.jpg|Hawaii. Photo by Bill Auistin. |
| − | image:Darian071710-44z.jpg|Marty Darian's gaden, SoCal. Photo by Vince Bury | + | image:Darian071710-44z.jpg|Marty Darian's gaden, SoCal. Photo by Vince Bury. |
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image:Dypsis-saintelucei4.jpg|Madagascar. Photo by Dr. John Dransfield, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew/Palmweb. | image:Dypsis-saintelucei4.jpg|Madagascar. Photo by Dr. John Dransfield, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew/Palmweb. | ||
image:Young-Dypsis-saintelucei4z.jpg | image:Young-Dypsis-saintelucei4z.jpg | ||
| − | image:Color1.jpg|Photo by Central Floridave | + | image:Color1.jpg|Photo by Central Floridave. |
image:DypSai.jpg|Photo-Rare Palm Seeds.com | image:DypSai.jpg|Photo-Rare Palm Seeds.com | ||
image:DypSai2.jpg|In habitat. Photo-Rare Palm Seeds.com | image:DypSai2.jpg|In habitat. Photo-Rare Palm Seeds.com | ||
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*[http://www.jlhudsonseeds.net/Pronunciation.htm "Just To Be Clear"] | *[http://www.jlhudsonseeds.net/Pronunciation.htm "Just To Be Clear"] | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
| − | Special thanks to Geoff Stein, (Palmbob) for his hundreds of photos | + | Special thanks to Geoff Stein, (Palmbob) for his hundreds of photos. |
| − | Special thanks to [http://palmweb.org/?q=node/2 Palmweb.org], Dr. John Dransfield, Dr. Bill Baker & team, for their volumes of information and photos | + | Special thanks to [http://palmweb.org/?q=node/2 Palmweb.org], Dr. John Dransfield, Dr. Bill Baker & team, for their volumes of information and photos. |
Glossary of Palm Terms; Based on the glossary in Dransfield, J., N.W. Uhl, C.B. Asmussen-Lange, W.J. Baker, M.M. Harley & C.E. Lewis. 2008. Genera Palmarum - Evolution and Classification of the Palms. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. All images copyright of the artists and photographers (see images for credits). | Glossary of Palm Terms; Based on the glossary in Dransfield, J., N.W. Uhl, C.B. Asmussen-Lange, W.J. Baker, M.M. Harley & C.E. Lewis. 2008. Genera Palmarum - Evolution and Classification of the Palms. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. All images copyright of the artists and photographers (see images for credits). | ||
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Habitat and Distribution
Endemic to Madagascar. Only known from the Sainte-Luce forest in the extreme South-East of the island. Coastal forest on white sand; 10-20 m. elev.
Description
A medium sized solitary palm, occasionally in clusters of 2-3. TRUNK 6-10 m., about 14 cm. in diam.; internodes 3-5 cm. long, grey, green more distally; nodal scars 1.6 cm. high, whitish; wood very hard, red; crownshaft waxy green. LEAVES tristichous, 7-11 per crown, porrect, slightly arch ing distally; sheath about 80 cm., 12 cm. in diam., closed, waxy pale green, smooth, with brown-tattering shoul ders; petiole absent or up to 13 cm. long, 2-2.5 x 2-2.5 cm. in diam., channelled with sharp edges, green, glabrous; rachis 2.3-2.4 m. long, proximally deeply channelled and 4 x 3 cm., more distally keeled, green, in mid-leaf 1.5-2.3 cm. wide, proximally with thin grey wax or scales, distally glabrous; leaflets 59-61 on each side of the rachis, regular, stiff, pale waxy green abaxially, the proximal 116-134 (-188) x 2.2-3.5 cm. (16 cm. apart, the most proximal often pendulous), median 90-104 x 3-3.7 cm. (interval 2.5-4 cm.), distal 15-40 x 1-2.2 cm/, main veins 1, only the midrib prominent on both surfaces with large distant brown ramenta, the other veins faint and with densely set small red-brown glands, apices attenuate, unequally bifid. INFLORESCENCE solitary, interfoliar at anthesis, erect within sheath, 175-225 cm., branched to 3 orders; peduncle 89 -138 cm., proximally 6-10 x 2-2.5 cm. and convex abaxially, concave adaxially, distally about 7.5 x 4 cm. in diam., glabrous; prophyll 100-130 cm., borne at 30-56 cm. above the base of the peduncle, about 9 cm. wide, glabrous; peduncular bract 68-73 cm., closed in the distal 6 cm., beaked for about 2 cm., inserted at 61-97 cm., abaxially pale waxy green, adaxially chestnut-brown; rachis 70-87 cm., green, glabrous, with 17 branched and 11-20 unbranched first order branches; rachillae 16-27 cm., green, glabrous, about 5 mm. in diam.; triads distant, superficial, with low, rounded bract. STAMINATE FLOWERS slightly scented; sepals 1.8-2.5 x 2.2-2.9 mm., keeled, gibbous, broadly ovate, concave, the broad margins membranous; petals yellow, connate for 1-1.6 mm. to the receptacle, free lobes 2.9-3.5 x 3-3.2 mm., ovate, acute, with adaxially and proximally with 2 swellings on each side of the base of the antepetalous stamen; stamens 6, uniseriate, filaments 3.8-4.4 mm/. long, connate at the very base for c. 0.3 mm., anthers 2.4-2.5 x 1 mm.; pistillode columnar, 1.8-2.3 x 1.4-1.6 mm. PISTILLATE FLOWERS only known in bud, with sepals 2.6- 2.8 x 3.3-3.4 mm., ciliolate; petals about 2.2 x 2.5 mm.; staminodes 6, 0.4-0.6 mm.; ovary asymmetrical, about 2.3 x 2.3 mm. FRUIT not known, but for seed and endocarp found under Beentje & Andriampaniry 4609; endocarp fibrous. SEED ellipsoid, 11.5-13 x 7 mm., rounded at one end, pointed at the other; endosperm deeply ruminate. (J. Dransfield and H. Beentje. 1995)/Palmweb..
In its group of large tristichous palms with regular leaflets and ruminate endosperm, closest to D. ampasindavae but distinct in the closed leaf sheath, and the interfoliar inflorescence, resulting in long peduncles and very long bracts. (J. Dransfield and H. Beentje. 1995)/Palmweb.
Culture
Sunny, moist, but well drained position.
Comments and Curiosities
A medium-sized, elegant palm which would probably do well in cultivation. It occurs on white sand, and so would probably do well in the drier tropics; the habitat is that of D. lutescens, one of the most successful ornamental palms (J. Dransfield and H. Beentje. 1995)/Palmweb.
Conservation: Critical. Only known from a single forest, with numbers less than fifty; this is right in the middle of the area where mining operations for mineral sand (ilmenite ore) are proposed. (J. Dransfield and H. Beentje. 1995)/Palmweb.
- IMAGE GALLERY
Floribunda, Hawaii, Jeff Marcus for scale, photo by BGL.
Floribunda, Hawaii, photo by BGL.
Floribunda, Hawaii, photo by BGL.
Pinecrest FL. Photo by Jeff Cramer.
Pinecrest FL. Photo by Jeff Cramer.
Pinecrest FL. Photo by Jeff Cramer.
Pinecrest FL. Photo by Jeff Cramer.
Ho'omalhia Botanical Garden, Hawaii. Photo by Jeff White.
Encinitas, CA. Photo by Nick, (ellidro).
Floribunda, Hawaii. Photo by Steve Piercy.
Floribunda, Hawaii. Photo by Steve Piercy.
Floribunda, Hawaii. Photo by Steve Piercy.
Bill Austin's garden, Hawaii. Photo by Timothy Brian.
Hawaii. Photo by Bill Auistin.
Marty Darian's gaden, SoCal. Photo by Vince Bury.
Floribunda, Hawaii, 'dwarf form'.
Floribunda, Hawaii, 'dwarf form'.
Ste Luce, Madagascar. Photo by Dr. John Dransfield, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew/Palmweb.
St. Luce, Madagascar. Photo by Dr. Henk Beentje, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew/Palmweb.
St. Luce, Madagascar. Photo by Dr. Henk Beentje, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew/Palmweb.
Madagascar. Photo by Dr. John Dransfield, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew/Palmweb.
Madagascar. Photo by Dr. John Dransfield, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew/Palmweb.
Madagascar. Photo by Dr. John Dransfield, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew/Palmweb.
Photo by Central Floridave.
Photo-Rare Palm Seeds.com
In habitat. Photo-Rare Palm Seeds.com
External Links
References
Special thanks to Geoff Stein, (Palmbob) for his hundreds of photos.
Special thanks to Palmweb.org, Dr. John Dransfield, Dr. Bill Baker & team, for their volumes of information and photos.
Glossary of Palm Terms; Based on the glossary in Dransfield, J., N.W. Uhl, C.B. Asmussen-Lange, W.J. Baker, M.M. Harley & C.E. Lewis. 2008. Genera Palmarum - Evolution and Classification of the Palms. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. All images copyright of the artists and photographers (see images for credits).
Dransfield, J. & Beentje, H. 1995. The Palms of Madagascar. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and The International Palm Society.
Many Special Thanks to Ed Vaile for his long hours of tireless editing and numerous contributions.
